## anonymous one year ago If a spacecraft was parked on Venus and needed to make a flight to Jupiter, how far would it need to travel? (Assume both planets are aligned with the sun and are on the same side of the sun.) Show your work and provide your answer in scientific notation. Lets say Venus is 108,200,000 km from the sun and Jupiter is 778,500,000 km from the sun

1. kittiwitti1

Information given:|dw:1442611550846:dw|

2. kittiwitti1

|dw:1442611664725:dw|We need to find x. Can you find the equation needed to solve for x?

3. anonymous

In scientific notation, it would be 6.703 x 10^8 I believe

4. kittiwitti1

Maybe. :p What equation did you come up with though? ^-^

5. anonymous

I just subtracted both distances

6. welshfella

you are correct

7. kittiwitti1

Like this?$\text{distance from sun to Jupiter}-\text{distance from sun to Venus}$Just making sure. :]

8. anonymous

Yup I did that :3

9. kittiwitti1

Alright! Good job :D you get a medal ^^

10. anonymous

Thanks for the help